Markeith Loyd sent messages to ex-girlfriend after shooting, authorities say

Markeith Loyd sent messages to ex-girlfriend after shooting, authorities say

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Updated: 10:09 PM EDT Apr 25, 2017

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WEBVTT MULTIPLE TIMES AND LIVED.>> THE NIGHT SADE DIXON WASKILLED, HER BROTHER RONALDSTEWART TOLD INVESTIGATORS HEWENT OUTSIDE THE FAMILY HOME ANDFOUND DIXON AND MARKEITH LOYDARGUING LOYD ACCUSING DIXON OF CHEATINGON HIM AND SMOKING WHILEPREGNANT.DIXON ACCUSING LOYD OF PUTTING AGUN TO MY HEAD .STEWART SAID HE TRIED TO DIFFUSETHE SITUATION BY TELLING HISSISTER TO GO INSIDE BUT AS DIXONTURNED TO WALK AWAY LOYD SAID.NAH NAH, SHE AINT GOING NOWHERERIGHT NOW .THAT'S WHEN THE REPORT STATESTHAT'S WHEN HE ALLEGEDLY PULLEDA GUN FROM THE FRONT POCKET OFHIS SWEATSHIRT AND OPENED FIRE.STEWART SAID HE WAS JUST 5 FEETFROM LOYD WHEN HE WAS HIT BY THEFIRST SHOT.HE FELL DOWN IN BETWEEN THEPILLARS OF THE HOUSE, FELTGRAVEL FLYING IN HIS FACE ANDHEARD MORE GUNSHOTS.HE SAID IT APPEARED HIS SISTERWAS TRYING TO TAKE COVER BEHINDTHE PILLARS.BEFORE IT WAS OVER INVESTIGATORSSAY SHE'D BEEN SHOT 7 TIMES.ACCORDING TO STEWART LOYD RAN TOHIS CAR AND STARTED TO DRIVEAWAY BUT FIRED MORE ROUNDS ATFAMILY MEMBERS WHO'D COME OUT TOHELP THE WOUNDED SIBLINGS.EIGHT MINUTES AFTER SADE DIXONHAD BEEN PRONOUNCED DEAD,DETECTIVES SAY LOYD SENT THISTEXT MESSAGE TO PREGNANT EXGIRLFRIEND'S PHONE.I DID NOT KNOW PURE GOING TOMAKE IT.I HOPE YOU DON'T.LOYD CLAIMS IT WAS DIXON WHOPULLED A GUN ON HIM FIRST.

Markeith Loyd sent messages to ex-girlfriend after shooting, authorities say

Accused killer Markeith Loyd sent several text messages to his pregnant ex-girlfriend moments after he shot her, saying that he hoped she died, according to newly released court documents.

Eight minutes after Sade Dixon was been pronounced dead, detectives said Loyd sent a text message to her phone: "I don't know if you're go(ing)to make it, hope you don't.”

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Dixon, two months’ pregnant at the time, moved out of Loyd's home after a violent dispute three days earlier, according to court documents. Dixon’s mother told investigators that Loyd "bit Dixon on the back shoulder," forcing her to get a tetanus shot.

After the breakup police said Loyd sent Dixon an ominous text: "I see what God has planned for me. Whatever happens to me I know I'm a good, honest man.”

Dixon sent Loyd a text message three days before her death that said: "I'm sorry for lying to you about smoking." She received his one word response two days later: "cool."

But then the relationship turned turbulent once more: Dixon accused Loyd of seeing other women: "I'm not stupid!"

Loyd demanded to see Dixon in person to discuss where their relationship stood.

In what investigators called Loyd's last text before their confrontation, Loyd admitted to "flirting," but blamed it on Dixon's refusal to talk to him: "All you had to do was answer my calls, but you was doing you."

Investigators said Loyd went to her mother's home in the next half-hour and confronted Dixon. When her brother tried to intervene, investigators said Loyd opened fire shooting Dixon seven times, wounding her brother four times.

As he made his getaway, investigators said Loyd shot at family members who came out of the house to help the wounded siblings.